This early access PDF covers all the Shakespeare Sundays from the end of March through mid-May. The Merchant of Venice is an incredibly difficult play, but it is also an incredibly rich one. I hope yo...
2015-03-02 06:55:55 +0000 UTC View Post
The rumor is that the 3rd Edition of Unknown Armies is supposed to be coming some time this year. I heartily endorse this. PDF Link: 2015-03-02 06:52:33 +0000 UTC View Post
After a series of delays, my essays on hexcrawling were left incomplete back in 2012. Quite frequently, people would ask me when I was planning to finish them. Now, thanks to you, I've wrapped the se...
2015-02-25 18:22:07 +0000 UTC View Post
At long last, I'm finishing my series of essays on hexcrawling! As a special bonus for Early Access backers, I'm including a PDF of the entire series (dating back to 2012) along with the final instal...
2015-02-25 07:50:10 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a scenario I created early last year, IIRC. It finally hit the table over the weekend and so I'm sharing it with you here. The actual play experience of the scenario was not at all what I was...
2015-02-23 20:04:36 +0000 UTC View Post
As I mention in my post-script to this article, "The Names of Legend" was my first professional sale. In fact, it was almost my first professional sale twice over. It was also the first time somethin...
2015-02-22 05:55:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A nifty little scenario for Numenera that I hope you enjoy. I think the PDF presentation for Early Access backers on this one will actually add a lot of utility for you: The formatting is a little sup...
2015-02-22 05:50:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Much like the Dungeon Level Connections addendum to Jaquaying the Dungeon, this material about prepping bangs was cut from the main Art of Pacing article because it grew to a size that was disruptive ...
2015-02-18 22:32:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the past couple years there have been a couple of series at the Alexandrian that have been left dangling with the last installments unfinished. With the Patreon going well, I'm responding to po...
2015-02-18 19:45:15 +0000 UTC View Post
You may be wondering why you're only getting this early access PDF 24 hours before the article goes live on the Alexandrian. It's because I only just finished writing it. Phew. PDF Link: 2015-02-17 08:47:07 +0000 UTC View Post
You can see here how I would have stocked the City State with a number of small dungeons. What I didn't know at the time was that Judges Guild had taken a similar approach with WRAITH OVERLORD in 1981...
2015-02-17 01:12:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The "mindwarp ale" pictured here is an actual liqeuer called VINIQ. It really does sparkle and shimmer like that (minus the purple glow). It's pretty cool.
2015-02-13 20:51:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had the flu for the past few days, so I'm behind on a bunch of stuff including producing new content for the Alexandrian and getting early access PDFs out to early access patrons. Fortunately, I ...
2015-02-11 20:06:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Early access to all the Ex-RPGNet reviews coming in March: - Mao - Puppetland - Settlers of Catan - Power Kill: A Roleplaying Metagame PDF Link: 2015-02-09 01:21:10 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the big wrap-up for the Thinking About Urbancrawls series. If you've got Early Access, you might want to take a moment and click through: I added several new chunks of thought to this post as ...
2015-02-06 19:07:30 +0000 UTC View Post
When I dive into old ideas like this I occasionally get the itch to try to complete the stuff that was never finished. But while it might be fun to explore the planet of Callashan some day, I think I'...
2015-02-04 20:47:23 +0000 UTC View Post
This collects the Shakespeare Sunday essays that'll be appearing at the Alexandrian from late February through March, including: - The Three Texts - Disasters in the Sun - Hamlet Writes (Never Trust ...
2015-02-01 21:58:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm wrapping up my current thoughts on using cities in RPGs, so let’s take a moment and go back in time by a decade or so. In May 2002, I sent Bob Bledsaw a query letter for writing an updated versi...
2015-02-01 07:45:49 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the point where we swap from research to conclusions. And I'm very curious to see what people think of my conclusions.
2015-01-28 19:12:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Comparing the wild creativity of the hobby's first decade to the truly remarkable homogeneity of the industry post-1982 is kind of amazing.
2015-01-26 18:31:59 +0000 UTC View Post
You know that a game is good when you want to drop everything else and run it. You know that a game is tragically flawed when it makes you want to drop everything else and rewrite it. PDF Link: 2015-01-23 19:35:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Mark Fitz called it yesterday: We're visiting Pavis and Sanctuary. (And also Tekumel and Boot Hill.)
2015-01-23 19:17:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Ronald has already described this as an "archaeological expedition". Probably true in the classical sense of rifling through other people's stuff and yanking out anything that looks valuable.
2015-01-19 20:48:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Early access to the Shakespeare Sunday articles discussing Cymbeline, including: - The Scripts: Cymbeline - Geeking About "Geek" PDF Link: 2015-01-17 21:49:45 +0000 UTC View Post
